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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you need to know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #GARDAÍ: More branches of the Garda Representative Association voted in favour of supporting industrial actions, including work-to-flu and ‘blue flu’, at various meetings across the country last night. The Tipperary, Cork North, Kerry and Dublin Metropolitan Region North branches joined their Cork, Limerick and Donegal colleagues in carrying motions of no confidence in Justice Minister Alan Shatter and Commissioner Martin Callinan.
2. #WHITE SMOKE: As the Catholic world digests the pope’s shock resignation announcement, attention today turns to Benedict XVI’s possible successor. Here are the 17 contenders. We’ve also taken a look at the key moments of the past eight years of the Holy See.
3. #NORTH KOREA: Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has joined international figures, such as UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon, in voicing his strong condemnation of North Korea’s nuclear explosion this morning. The communist state staged its most powerful nuclear test yet, so powerful seismic monitors detected an unusual tremor close to the Chinese border.
4. #PROM NIGHT: In some rare good economic news, credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s improved its outlook for Ireland’s credit worthiness from ‘negative’ to ‘stable’ as a result of last week’s promissory note agreement.
5. #AUSTRALIA: A 21-year-old Wexford man, suffering from neck wounds obtained in a stabbing incident, is still fighting for his life at a Perth hospital. A 32-year-old man has been charged in connection with the incident and is due before court later this month.
6. #ELLIE: Eight-year-old Ellie Silva was returned to her mother yesterday, seven months after she went missing. The Algarve Resident reports that Ellie’s Portugeuse father who had defied a court ruling to return his daughter to her Irish mother, was located near Lisbon last week after a months-long search.
7. #HORSEMEAT: As the horsemeat scandal gallops on, Ireland has called for an EU meeting of affected countries, reports RTÉ. The request comes after the latest revelation from Tesco that it found 60 per cent horse DNA in one of its frozen spaghetti bolognese products.
8. #MURDERS: Nine murders carried out in Ireland between January and October last year were committed by previous offenders who were out on bail, new figures have revealed.
9. #COKE HABIT: A New Zealand coroner found that a 30-year-old’s addiction to Coca-Cola was a contributing factor in her death. Mother-of-eight Natasha Harris drank up to 10 litres of the soda every day, providing twice the recommended safe daily limit of caffeine and almost one kilogram of sugar. She died in February 2010 from a cardiac arrest.
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Can we please all agree that this is the last we’ll read on the Journal today about the Pope and his possible successor? I’m fed up with it already.
And what the hell were Eileen Dunne and Miriam O’Callaghan doing in Rome yesterday? Does the Catholic church still have that much influence in RTE? What a terrible waste of licence fee.
Like it or not Ireland is still predominantly a catholic country and therefore as head of that church on earth the pope is news. It may be of no interest to you but to a lot of people it is a huge part of their faith.
I think the voting on your post say a lot about the ratio of relevance to irrelevance this has in the lives of people in Ireland today.
Maybe RTE should send some correspondents to report on the 100 Palestinians killed in Gaza every day instead, because that’s actual news about something which really matters that is happening in the world right now. Why don’t they provide better coverage of the protesters at the Corrib gasline? They’re one of the most biased, blindly complicit national TV stations in any country. Remember their public apology for showing the guerilla art of Brian Cowen? They’re so spineless.
“Gallops on” …. well played :-)
“As the horse meat scandal gallops on”. Sinead, you just couldn’t resist you! Ha ha!
In future, just say “neigh”
Garda are leading the way in sending a clear message to government that talks on further pay cuts by trade unions are a non runner with their members about time the other union’s realised this
Oh Journal, I expected more from you! Perhaps it wasn’t Coca Cola that killed her but the over dose of caffeine and 1kg of sugar as a daily diet, which is no surprise to anyone that this may induce cardiac arrest! Is this really news worthy?
Hey Maeve,
Our ninth entry in the 9 at 9 is usually something more off-beat that what you’ll hear on the daily bulletins.
Also, the coroner found that Coca-Cola *was* a contributing factor because that is where the caffeine and sugar came from….??
Well said Maeve. If the woman drink anything with that much caffeine and sugar it would have killed her as well, it wasn’t the fact that it was just Coca Cola.
Imagine sitting down and eating 2.2 pounds of sugar each day! I’m surprised she wasn’t the size of a house!
sinead your a right grumpy one .
That’s like saying cigarettes don’t kill people, the tar and other chemicals which lead to illnesses do. But guess what they are practically the a main ingredients! sugar and caffeine are addictive and so is coke I’ve known a few addicts, it’s a bit funny but the stuff is really bad for you, some cleaning companies even use it to clean toilets.
Well no, it’s not like saying that. Would somebody day that smoking is fine in moderation? No. Smoking is innately unhealthy and deadly. Coke does not fall into that category. Not really an appropriate comparison.
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